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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Carlos Baldizon-Izquierdo.

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CARLOS BALDIZON-IZQUIERDO

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 9, 1947 – August 7, 1969

Service record

Carlos Baldizon-Izquierdo, of San Francisco, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 7, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 107

Position of Panel 20W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
January 9, 1947
Home of record
San Francisco, California (San Francisco County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 7, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 107

From San Francisco

All 164 names from San Francisco →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.